Leslie Bassett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning arranger, passed away in Oakwood, Georgia

 Bassett won the Pulitzer for music for Variations for Orchestra, which debuted in Rome in 1963.

Who was Leslie Bassett?

• Leslie Bassett concentrated on sythesis with Homer Keller at the University of Michigan.

• Bassett was an individual from the Gamma Pi section of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at California State University-Fresno, 1942.

• He likewise created Echoes from an Invisible World, which was appointed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy for the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976.

• He composed Hammered Strings and Whistling Pipes particularly for the spouse and-wife twosome Phillip and Joy Hayner, employees at Piedmont College, to perform at a ProMusica Concert Series occasion.